Anil Adisesh @doctorsdilemma@qoto.org

Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” is astounding up close, at Neue Galerie in NY. But I can’t stop seeing cells migrating in the ventricular zone looking at her dress!

Cajal won the Nobel Prize in 1906 and Klimt finished the painting in 1907. What I see as cells are usually interpreted as eyes, but might Klimt have been influenced by Cajal’s drawings? Or even the other way around?

“N” is for “nox”, 1654 psalter done by Joseph O Morchua Irish friar of St. Isidore’s Rome

Heading home from Old Faithful this afternoon we encountered a group of bison braving the 150F water while crossing the runoff of Excelsior Geyser. The cold air causes heavy steam to rise and surround the bison.

HIGHLY relevant for #aiethics:

"The Commonwealth's representation that their breath test unassailably proved their impairment worked to erode their own confidence in their innocence," Erkan wrote, "causing people to plead guilty not because they were guilty, but because a machine said they were guilty."

https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/08/massachusetts-alcohol-oui-cases-arguments

#AI #ethics #algorithms

'In one such work, the 1873 A Guide to World Customs, author Nakagane Masahira and his Tokyo publisher included an illustration of Newton’s discovery of gravity after he saw an apple fall from a tree. But, what was an apple, anyway? No such fruit was for sale in Tokyo. The publisher obviously thought it would be easier to replace the unknown foreign fruit with something more familiar, such as a Japanese plum.'

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-apples?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=twitter

@aphyr
The return of expertsexchange?

(Context for the peanut gallery: this horribly chosen domain name was an attempt to create a Quora or StackExchange type system which required paid memberships... but the answers turned out to be not much better than modern AI generated text, and they spammed search results like crazy.)

This is going into a technical presentation someday.

55% of the world's population lives in this circle, within 2,500 miles of Yuxi, China
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2022/02/the-yuxi-circle.html

Refuse

Made this for fun the other day, after seeing an example on Twitter:

@maxplanckgesellschaft
✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon

Footprints on the #Moon and cemeteries on #Mars: interview with space archaeologist #AliceGorman, #FlindersUniversity
July 10, 2019 6.13am AEST

https://theconversation.com/footprints-on-the-moon-and-cemeteries-on-mars-interview-with-space-archaeologist-alice-gorman-118911

#SpaceExploration #SpaceArchaeology
#CulturalHeritageOfMankind

Today’s poem is called ‘Fixtures’. It was written for a previous men’s football World Cup.

As for this one - given the allegations of corruption, Qatar’s appalling human rights violations, and the deaths of 6500 migrant workers - I’m not sure I’ll be watching any of it.

Scanning the recent #WHO #policy brief on #MentalHealth at #work

Priority given to organizational interventions. Individual interventions listed, but good to see caveats outlined

In France, INRS advised NOT to use yoga for #psychosocialrisks #prevention.

IMO: individual interventions have NO place in a company policy (WHO acknowledges it places the onus on #workers rather than on organizations)

You want to do yoga, you do you but it should not be a business policy

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---safework/documents/publication/wcms_856976.pdf